Last night, the USA men's team arrived at the stadium as the underdogs. Previously, the heavily favored French team was asked about "The Americans" and responded: "The Americans? We're going to crush the Americans. That's what we came here for." As you can imagine, that got back to the four swimmers of the USA team: Michael Phelps, Garrett Weber-Gale, Cullen Jones and Jason Lezak. And while Phelps is a monster, the real story turned out to be Lezak.
Before the race, the NBC commentators are heard saying: "I don't know, Dan, every time I do this, it's the French." From the start, the race was close, the Americans and French trading the leak back and forth. But the French edged ahead, and as the Even as the anchor, Lezak, dove in, the commentators started hedging, saying, "I just don't think he can (close the gap)." Clearly they didn't expect this.
[Spoiler: Lezak opens up an aquatic can of whoop-ass.]
